Heard this explanation of the health care mandate yesterday and thought I’d share it. Consider the Gas Tax. Because we need decent roads to drive our cars on, we are all asked to pay a tax on the gas we consume, which is then used to maintain our national road system. The mandate to purchase health care insurance, and to pay a penalty to the IRS if you don’t, can be looked at in the same way. ...
We love to watch Joe Scarborough's MSNBC "Morning Joe" weekday program. Joe is a political barometer in many ways ... a man who calls himself a "small government conservative" --- and even admits to having cast a protest vote for Ron Paul in the GOP primary --- but who appears to have embraced the Obama plan for America's economy. Not sure he actually "gets" that he's supporting Obama on fiscal ...
An uninformed citizenry is all that's necessary for a handful of billionaires to mold the thinking of a nation. These successful businessmen understand marketing --- and marketing their politics to serve their own interests is an easy step. Beginning with the Reagan presidency right-wing marketing has promoted the idea that labor unions are bad. Workers banding together to get safer working ...
America is being bought and sold to the New Tycoons. The Supreme Court, with the Citizens United decision, has given free rein to the uber wealthy to purchase our government for their own benefit --- and the 1% is moving quickly to exercise their new freedom to shape our nation to line their own pockets. It is no longer "One person, one vote" and has become "One dollar, one vote." The old a ...